Considering less than a decade ago texting wasn’t even on anyone’s radar, David Crystal, author of txtng: the gr8 db8, can’t help but question if any other linguistic phenomenon ever…
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With schools spending billions on technology while simultaneously cutting funding for the arts and physical education, Jane M. Healy, author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds…
I had many laugh out loud moments while reading Robin O’Bryant’s book, Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other Lies Mothers Tell Themselves. My favorite chapter, by far, was “Eff the…
Some of the best parenting advice I’ve gotten over the years has come from what Richmond Family Magazine refers to as “real moms” during playgroups, grocery stops, and happy hours. …
“Life today for most families is characterized more by randomness and improvisation than rhythm. Tuesday wash day? Cookies and milk after school? Sunday roast beef dinner? With both parents usually…
What parent doesn’t want calmer, happier, more secure kids? Internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne believes parents can use the extraordinary power of less to achieve just such a…
We meet in a sunny breakfast nook on another scorching summer day. The windows around us let in so much light we might as well be outside. Meg Medina’s eyes…
“About 40 percent of students identified getting into a ‘good college’ as more important than being a ‘good person,’” writes Richard Weissbourd, author of The Parents We Mean to Be. …
Four-year- old Eli woke up bright and early every morning that week. “Are we going to see the owls today, Mommy?” My little nature lover was completely obsessed with the…
Maybe, I love Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman because my first experience abroad was as an exchange student in Paris my sixteenth summer. Maybe, I love how this American…
Given the serious topics of the last few parenting titles I’ve blogged about, Amy Spencer’s Bright Side Up is a breath of fresh air. As parents, we know only too…
Derren Brown is a performer in England who combines the powers of suggestion and psychology into his act in order to, as he says, “seemingly predict and control human behavior.”…